If you live in Japan, you should know how convenient the Japanese delivery service is.

They re-deliver your package at your convenient time if you're out.

They handle your package with extra delicacy if it's easily breakable without extra charge.

They don't give up even if the address is wrong and they try to figure out where the package is supposed to go with the phone number.


There are some major delivery service companies including the Japan Post.

However, this Japanese delivery service might be in a turning point now in its long history because of the dramatically increasing number of packages to be delivered in Japan.

As you  know, online shopping has become so common these days.
If you buy something online, it means that someone will deliver it to your home for you.

Yamato Transport, one of the biggest delivery companies in Japan, annouce the number of packages they delivered in 2015 as over 1.7 billion.

They've been trying to hire more people, but they say they can never hire enough.
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So lately, we're hearing lots of news about how hard the delivery people's work every day.
According to those news, they have more packages than they can handle every day.
They don't have enough time for lunch and they have to work late.

In those news "Amazon" is always refered as one of the biggest causes of this situation.

HOWEVER, what Yamato and other delivery service companies will do with the support of the current atmosphere is to raise the rate.

The timing of the rate change is always difficult for companies, but now is the best chance for them.

Besides, there will be more houses with "lockable delivery box" they can put the package in when nobody's home because the re-delivery is one of the biggest burdens for them.


It's been discussed how convenient the delivery service "should be".
They say we might be used to the services which are "too convenient".

I believe that there is no backwards in the conveninece.

And I'm pretty sure that there will be more and more packages to be delivered and the rate will be higher.